Sale: Magic & Steam series

In celebration of International Steampunk Day this Tuesday, I've put the Magic & Steam series on sale all week! If you've been hesitant about steampunk as a genre, now is a great opportunity to give it a try and race the streets of Gilded Age New York City with magic-wielding federal agent, Gillian Hamilton and his gentleman thief and infamous outlaw lover, Gunner the Deadly. Take a ride on airships, battle crazed engineers and power-hungry gangsters, sneak into the gay clubs along the Bowery, and try to survive as a mysterious villain threatens the magic encompassing Gillian's world!

Book 1, The Engineer, is only 99c, and Book 2, The Gangster, is on sale for $1.99. Be sure to grab the newest release too: Book 3, The Doctor.

Reads: May, 2022

I'm a bit behind on posting my May reads (story of my life!) and I haven't written reviews for everything, so I'll just share the two I did. I continued my pleasure reading of Adrien English, and got my greedy hands on the finale of Hazard & Somerset, too!

Death of a Pirate King (An Adrien English Mystery 4) by Josh Lanyon

Final Orders (Hazard and Somerset: Arrows in the Hand 5) by Gregory Ashe

As always, my reviews are posted on Goodreads and mirrored on BookBub. I appreciate new followers!

Publishing Anniversary

Every June I have plenty of reasons to drink whiskey and eat cupcakes guilt-free, and that includes: it's my birthday (35 this year!), the celebration of marriage equality, Pride, and my publishing anniversary! 2022 marks 7 long, weird, wild, and glorious years of pursuing my lifelong dream of being a professionally published author—and it marks 2 years of doing this as a full-time job! It all began with a (currently unavailable, but will eventually be re-published, I promise) short story called, Love Has No Expiration.

2015 - 2022 with Emporium Press

5 short stories (+1 in production: Curio)
5 novellas
10 novels (+1 in production: Subway Slayings)
2 co-written novels
1 anthology
15 audiobooks (+1 in production: The Doctor)
9 French translations (+4 more in production)
2 German translations (+3 more in production)

Not too shabby for someone who takes an average of three to four months to write a book while juggling all the other moving parts of being a small business owner!

I've been able to include Garrett Kiesel, Declan Winters, and Kale Williams in my narrator stable, alongside the talents of Greg Tremblay and Wyatt Baker. My beloved steampunk series has found a dedicated readership—these were books I was told had no audience by agents and house alike. I even won two awards this year for Madison Square Murders (Indie and e-Lit) and The Gangster (e-Lit)!

I'll be co-hosting a reader meet-up in New York City this July and attending GRL in October as a Spotlight Author. I've also got a few trips planned for 2023, which I hope to be given the go ahead to talk about soon! All in all, my seventh year is looking great, and I couldn't have done it without the support of my fellow artists, production team, and readers like you. Thank you for supporting indie authors and quality LGBTQ fiction.

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